Ok the mystery continues. On another box, strider, "chage -l" works so
this is what I did (don't try this at home):
$ mkdir /tmp/strider_passwd
$ scp strider:/etc/passwd /tmp/strider_passwd
$ scp strider:/etc/shadow /tmp/strider_passwd
$ mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.orig
$ mv /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.orig
$ mv /tmp/strider_passwd/passwd /etc
$ mv /tmp/strider_passwd/shadow /etc
$ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1314 2007-09-18 16:23 /etc/passwd
-rw------- 1 root root 625 2007-09-18 16:23 /etc/shadow
$ chage -l marduk
chage: can't open password file
I'm running out of ideas. This used to work up until about a month ago.
BTW I was going to try also copying group/gshadow from strider but, oddly
enough,
strider doesn't have an /etc/gshadow.
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